Stupid formatting OCD

BMR

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This is going to be a n00b question but it's bothering me and I can't figure it out without wasting more time.

I have a cell with a UPC code, ex- 781052055704

I want to take another UPC code of the same length and put it in the same cell, separated by a comma.

This is what I want:

781052055704,886587355704

Instead I either get scientific notation
7.81052055704886E+23 or
7810520557048860000000000

What formatting will work!?
 

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Set the cell formatting to 'text' - should fix

otherwise preceed the entire string with a single quote
 
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When I convert to Text format it still shows up in Scientific notation but once I click into and edit the cell it works. Weird, thanks all
 
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